Category: floor (men)

Specific to Artistic gymnastics. More posts are included in the TUMBLING category.

Kohei – 2014 Floor

I’d argue Kohei Uchimura singled handedly reinvented how male gymnasts land.

Easily the best in the world in his prime, many emulated Kohei’s exaggerated technique.

I love it as he turned the science of safely reducing huge impact forces to zero into an art form.

At the same time WAG was foolishly deducting low chest position. Dangerous!

Of his many stuck routines over many years, Blythe chose this as one of her decade-defining routines.

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‘shaping’ for layout backward

Backward “gainer” drills are great for many reasons. Including the hip action on takeoff and shape for a hollow layout.

Chellsie Memmell, by coincidence, is an ideal model at the beginning of this video tutorial.

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‘SET’ drill for rotation

Love it.

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Opening the hips on take-off generates backwards rotation. That’s an indirect reaction force that some beginners struggle to master.

Many beginners RUSH into the salto position before finishing the spring.

Jade Carey Olympic Floor Champion

What a story.

  1. CAREY Jade USA 14.366
  2. FERRARI Vanessa ITA 14.200
  3. MURAKAMI Mai JPN 14.166
  4. MELNIKOVA Angelina ROC 14.166

Full results.

Floor – Dolgopyat, Zapata, Xiao Ruoteng

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Full results.

superb Brooklyn Moors

A case study in artistry for judges.

Can they score higher than 10.0 at UCLA? 😀

She’s one of the reserves for the Floor final.

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